喜樂美語
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    Menfolk means the men of a family, a village, or some other group, spoken of together as a bunch. It has a , slightly old flavour — the sort of word you hear in country stories, older speech, or a gently teasing remark: the menfolk were out in the fields. Younger city English does not use it much; people just say the men or the guys. There is a matching word womenfolk. It is not a rude word, but it does treat men as one block, so it can sound dated, and sometimes a bit stereotyped, as if 'the men' all do one thing and 'the women' another. You will mostly meet it in novels, family talk from older speakers, or historical writing, not in school science or news English.

    家裡／族裡的男人們（偏口語、舊一點）

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組成men + folk. Folk here means people.

同家族的字

  • womenfolkthe same pattern, for the women of a family or group
  • folkthe second half; it means people
  • kinsfolkanother old compound with folk, meaning your relatives

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

menfolknoun

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    Male people in general.

    • The old woman was surprised when the soldiers stopped to look at her camouflage quilts, since menfolk are rarely interested in needlework.
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    The male members of a group.

    • At our family reunion, the menfolk generally have a ball game, while the womenfolk gossip and trade snapshots.
    • […] when the pleasant time of night is come, and the stewardess is tucking up the ladies, and putting oranges and other goodies under their pillows, and the menfolk assemble in the capstan house to smoke their last cigar.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。